How Did a Generation Become So Stupid?
Seriously
Somehow, in one of those accidents that befall those who spend too much time on the Internet without much intent, I came across a TikTok a fellow writer had pointed out. In it, a young American woman with one of those slightly dead-sounding LA voices goes on about “manifestation.” You roll your eyes, but some of these videos have millions of views and likes.
For the uninitiated, “manifestation” is the idea that you literally will good things into being. You decide you want “financial abundance” or a holiday in the South of France and you “manifest” it from the universe. It’s like prayer, I guess, except unapologetically selfish.
Elsewhere, the BBC informs me Megan Boni, a random TikToker, has gone viral for a 20-second song she made up and sung in a stupid voice for a joke about wanting a boyfriend in finance with a trust fund, a song that has been remixed by David Guetta and resulted in an actual record company offering her — a woman who has no musical ability or has ever written a proper song — an actual serious record deal. She turned the deal down, saying, “I was like: ‘what makes you think I can write a song? What makes you think I could write an album?’” but nonetheless says she will “ride the wave of the song,” appearing in Vegas with Guetta and hoping to appear on Saturday Night Live.
